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Bydlo

Patrick Bouchard · Canada · Experimental / Drama / Music Video / Animation · 9 min · 10K views

Directed by Patrick Bouchard · 2012

Set to Mussorgsky's Bydlo, clay sculptures rise from the earth in a tactile allegory of humanity toiling toward its own ruin.

Striking clay animation turns classical music into a dark, physical allegory of mankind as its own slave driver.

An allegory of mankind heading for disaster, this animated short is a tragic vision inspired by the 4th movement of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Drawing on the composer's brilliant ability to evoke work and la

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